KCNA COMMENTARY ACCUSES S. KOREAN REGIME OF ITS MOVES TO REVISE FASCIST LAW FOR WORSE

    Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, the minister of Justice of south Korea cried out for revising the "Security Law" (SL) in such a manner as to forcibly dissolve the "anti-state organizations" and "those benefiting enemy", adding he would push ahead with it as his top priority task this year.
The chief executive of south Korea supported his plan.

This is an unpardonable criminal act of totally stamping out the pro-independence, democracy and reunification forces and pushing the north-south relations to the worst catastrophe.

The SL fabricated by the Syngman Rhee clique in 1948 is an unheard-of fascist law that brands the DPRK as an enemy. It has been in force to mercilessly suppress south Korean people's patriotic and democratic activities and struggle for national reunification and even trifling acts of political opponents after labeling them "anti-government ones sympathizing with the north."

Chief executives were replaced by others in south Korea many times but the SL has remained in force and more than one million people had been severely punished by the law until 2013. It is as clear as a pikestaff that there would be neither democracy in south Korea nor repaired north-south relations as long as there is such mechanism for harsh dictatorship and institutional barrier that brands compatriots in the north as enemy and incriminates even meeting with them and talking to them.

The DPRK has never forced its ideology and system upon south Korea but staged the movement for reunification in the idea of the joint declarations the north and the south agreed upon. South Korean people have also staged actions in line with the common aspiration of humankind for democracy and in the idea of the programmes for reunification being supported by all Koreans.
So, the DPRK should not be considered as an enemy of the south Korean authorities nor south Korean people be punished on the charge of "sympathizing with the north." It is a mere commonplace that dialogue and cooperation are taking place between countries with differing ideologies and social systems in the world.

In the light of not only misfortune and pain all Koreans have suffered but also the global trend, there is neither ground nor justification for the SL to remain in force. Nevertheless, the south Korean authorities are working hard to revise the SL for the worse, not content with brutally suppressing the legitimate organizations and personages calling for national reconciliation and reunification by invoking it from the outset of the year.

Their move is an open challenge to all sincere efforts made by the DPRK to bring about a great turn and change in the north-south relations and an unpardonable act of trampling down the ardent desire and expectation of all Koreans.
The SL is now not only rejected by all Koreans but censured as an anti-human rights law by international organizations such as the UN and even the U.S. The SL should be repealed at once.

DPRK FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN BLASTS REMARKS OF "SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR" OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

    Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Feb. 4 gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the fact that the "special rapporteur" on human rights issue in the DPRK recently slung mud at the dignity of its supreme leadership:
    Darusman, called "special rapporteur" on human rights issue in the DPRK of the UN Human Rights Council, in an interview with AP on Feb. 2 called for "change of leadership" in the DPRK, saying that "human rights and the present government cannot coexist in north Korea". His reckless remarks were just an imitation of calumnies on the DPRK of the U.S. ruling quarters obsessed with the inveterate repugnancy towards it, and this fully revealed his true colors as a dirty stooge under the veil of human rights champion who acts a shock brigade in implementing the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    It is no wonder that AP expressed astonishment at the remarks, saying that they could be heard only from U.S. officials. Darusman threw mud at the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership absolutely trusted by its army and people. It is as foolish an act as trying to get the sun eclipsed by palms, and such impudent behavior deserves the punishment of Heaven.

In fact, he is implicated in the case of the massacre of 500 000 people linked to the leftist or labor groups in Indonesia in 1965 committed with CIA help. He is also a dirty man who is a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, whose patrons include U.S. unsavory characters.

Such guy, turned into a disgusting imposter and hack writer for money from the U.S., now goes reckless to take the lead in the anti-DPRK "human rights" campaign.

Darusman, a hand-raised stooge of the U.S., recruited "testifiers" like Sin Tong Hyok and took them from place to place to tell the false stories according to the U.S. scenario, so as to cook up an anti-DPRK "human rights resolution", befooling the international community.

Upset by Sin's confession of his false "testimonies", Darusman is seeking to justify the false document, cooked up by him, with sophism that it was based on "testimonies" of hundreds of persons. To make it clearer, he should open to the public at once the names of hundreds of "defectors from the north" whom he asserted he met. Then, the DPRK will reveal to the whole world the true identities of each and every one of those false "testifiers" and the crimes committed by them one by one.

Consequently, the truth behind the anti-DPRK "human rights" racket by Darusman and his master, the U.S., will be brought to light more evidently. The DPRK does never pardon anyone for hurting the dignity of its supreme leadership, and it is its unchangeable temper and will to defend the best socialist system of Korean style. The DPRK will continue to toughly counter the mad-cap anti-DPRK "human rights" racket the U.S. and other hostile forces are kicking up by employing such dishonest elements as Darusman. -0-

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We can elaborate on what happened. But we would like to just recall that whenever he found himself in deepening ruling crisis during his tenure of office, Lee reached out to the DPRK in a bid to seek a way out, talking about "dispatch of a special envoy" and "summit." He pretended to do some favor for the north each time.

The DPRK has all evidence to prove such fact. His recent reckless act of malignantly hurting the DPRK by misrepresenting the course of the informal north-south contacts once again brought to light before the world his true colors as thrice-cursed depraved politician and base philistine. Lee's recent publication of his "memoir" peppered with lies is aimed at evading his responsibility for driving the north-south relations into the worst catastrophe and chilling the atmosphere for mending the north-south relations now growing strong and divert elsewhere the public criticism of his thrice-cursed crimes.
    The DPRK cannot but express serious concern about whether it will be possible to discuss the important issue of the nation with reckless guys of south Korea as brazen-faced as Lee. Lee would be well advised to write "a memoir" repenting of his acts of treachery as he deserves history's stern punishment.
    The DPRK will closely follow the developments in south Korea.